Deadspin had a good article about it all, though a few people on the editor's board are Calipari/Kentucky fans, so that skews things a bit.
Anyway, John Calipari is a pimp. He is a brutally honest pimp that uses the possibility of athletes making tons of money if they go to his school for the one-and-done program.
A few years back the NCAA changed the rules so you had to go to college for one year before the pros. They said because the best talents were skipping over college and were hurting the game. Is it really though?
I don't care to watch superstar athletes, I want to see good competition and teamwork. That doesn't happen with teams that have a superstar and a bunch of nobodies whose only job is to sit there. Save that for the NBA that no one watches.
Even though Calipari always had good teams, he never won the championship. It was something that basketball purists could hang their hat on. You can't win it all with inexperience. You need seniors and juniors to win the big one.
In 2008 Calipari's Memphis team proved it.
A team that couldn't convert. Now the 2012 Kentucky team almost did it once again, unfortunately Anthony "I am shit" (or was the un-classy comment he yelled, I am the shit, which ever) Davis helps lead a team to prove Calipari's system can work.
Though he couldn't shoot from the field what so ever, but he was able to rebound. Good thing that's important in a professional league that doesn't play defense.... just sayin.
So it is sad to see that a team of one-and-dones can win a championship, even if it takes Calipari well over a decade to win it. Like they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Also, any coach that says having six kids getting drafted was the greatest day in UK history, greater than the days where they won its titles, just doesn't seem right in my mind.
Side note, I don't like coach Bob Knight, though I like him a bit more now.
Knight wont mention the name Kentucky. Also, he never has anything good to say about Calipari. When asked which one of the No.1 seeds will exit the tournament early, his response, "the one from the SEC."
He will continuously mock its "student-athletes", referring that they never go to class because an education means nothing to them.
If you get the chance Google it and find an article like this.
Lastly, I would like to leave you with a quote that my friend, who is a Kansas fan, said.
" I'm reading Machiavelli for a second time right now and he points out that kingdoms won by internal power are greater than those won by mercenaries."
Couldn't agree more.
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